https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/irs-tax-payment-site-down-as-agency-works-to-resolve-issue.html
IRS payment site crashes hours before Tax Day filing deadline
The “Direct Pay” page, where filers can wire money from a bank account to pay their tax bill, crashes on Tax Day.
The “Payment Plan” page, where filers can pay their tax bill in installments also appears to have crashed.
“Currently, certain IRS systems are experiencing technical difficulties,” an IRS spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNBC. “Taxpayers should continue filing their tax returns as they normally would.” The spokeswoman didn’t say when the system went down.
IRS Acting Commissioner David J. Kautter told The Washington Post that filers wouldn’t be penalized if their returns were late due to the site’s problems. Normally, you’re liable for penalties if you fail to file your return and pay your taxes in a timely fashion.
“We understand that the IRS is experiencing technical difficulties today with the transmission of direct tax return payments,” said Richard Neal, D-Mass., the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
“Given this news, I hope that the IRS will make accommodations so that every taxpayer attempting to file today has a fair shot to do so without penalty,” he said.
A spokesperson at commercial tax preparer TurboTax said that the IRS’s technical difficulties affects all tax preparers and tax returns.
I paid them yesterday, just in case.
Didn’t want to chance getting hit with a penalty.